Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-04

In this fight they may get salt on two
classes of Democrat and Republican
birds, viz: the very young who have not
yet feathered or the very old who have
forgotten their political cunning
There are lots of people in Texas
who are against this amendment
on good aud sufficient grounds, and if
they are ruled out of the church and good
society on this vote they can start
church and society of their own. Be-
cause the Lord in the shape of long hair
has permitted, though positively for
hidden them, the wool to grow over the
eyes of these prohibitionlsts, is 10 reason
they can pull it over the eyes of others.
They are hollering morality, and at the
same time doing some terrific slick politi-
cal work, great deal of it at night,
and in a secret manner, intend
ed for the present effect and future
reference. They are too cunning to be
the chosen children of the Lord UNDER
the new dispensation. Their present cor
fessions are too much at variance with
previous acts. There is too much Creek
horse ia this thing for any old or young
Trojan to swallow it. If we are whipped,
let it be in regular knock down fight,
and not by strategy. They are now dis
tributing with lavish hand church and
social standing; year from now, they
openly declare that the faithful only shall
partake OF the flesh pots Ia Mahomet.
Some of those who have gone into this
move with bright visions of great chunks
of hash will, even If the Pr0hibitioniSts
succeed, have to content themselves with
smell of the breath ofaWash Jones, Do
honey, Holman, or SONS of the ab initio
lovers of the Lord anG prohibition. A
great many of these fellows VINO have
gone off after the Prohibitionists will
miss the offices and find that their quickly
and easily acquired church and society
standing Lasted only until the polls were
closed.
If was some of those East Texas Pro
hibitIonists who are praying for prohibit
ton and what is to follow its success, l
would put in an occasional prayer for
good pawpaw and perSimmon crop. They
are mighty handy things to fall back on
if a man misses an office.
If they are defeated in August they
will need something of this kind, for
even the missionary tund that has hereto
fore gone to enlighten the heather has
been discounted one year in advance and
gone to the Waco and other prohibition
wigWams.
If prohibition is successful there won't
be chicken-pie enough to go arOund,
although all the amendments submitted
along with this provides for more offices
anu increased expenses to be paid for by
the farmer and other industrial classes
Those that miss offices may be made 8
prohibition colonel by special dispense
| ton, and have their social and brevet
cd frr civ
throw these hints out because the people
OF Texas have the best state government
in the world and may not want to eX-
change low taxes for high.
THE PROSPECTS.
| Now I say to those of you who are
against prohibition, fight it in true blue
Texas style and never despair. Every
vote counts in this election. Just as soon
as we reach the ear of the people and get
action on their unbiased Judgment we will
win by the usual majority. If we should
| lose, why in two years after this amend
ment goes into effect those who have
! fought it will have 8 better standing
than ever, for the evils of whisky will be
| here still, and coupled with high taxes
and sectional divisions of sentiment such
as never existed in Texas. The man who
is right politically and sticks to it, may
sometimes have to go to the bottomless
pit of political perdition only to rise
again to the topmost pinnacle of fame.
Such has been the experience of American
! politicians of the best type.
DOES 1T PROHIBITI
One page of history is worth more than
the judgment of 1000 living men, and if
there is anything IN record testimony this
character of legislation has not been g
success. Eleven out of fourteen states
| which tried it repealed it. Governor An.
| dreWs OF Massachusetts, of whose speech
l have 200 or 500 copies, caused even that
blue law state to repeal its prohibi,
ton laws by showing that they
mad made hypOcrites and perjurers out Of
the people, and had not rid the state oil
liquor. They say that one law can be
enforced IS we'll as another. This is not
true; if so, there never would have been
any revolutions. Why wasn't the fugitive
slave law enforced at the north? Why
couldn't all the money and absolute
power in the hands of the InquisitiOn sup
press Professionalism, which was made 6
felony, punishable by death without jury
| trial?
Especially in Republican governments
does the enforcement of laws depend
upon sentiment in the locality where they
are sought to be enforced. This is why
local option upon this and the stock law
was incorporated in our constitution, and
why Georgia left wine and vineyard gro "
Jag out of its prohibition law and left
each county TO settle it for itself.
1t does seem to me that there is more
humbug, more radicalism and more ig-
norance of history to the square inch In
this amendment THANH in any piece OF leg
islation ever attempted. There is not a
crowned head in Europe who would try to
/ give his subjects as much tyranny in one
dose. II this law prohibits, why is there
seventy-six drug stores and only
one undertaken IN the small
town of Wichita, Kan. When
ever mn is against prohibition and
shows from history, commencing in the
sixteenth century and running up to date,
that it don't prohibit; whenever he quotes
Thomas Jefferson, who framed our gov
eminent and who said that "no nation
could be saved from the evils of whisky
except through pure wine and malt